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Cartoon Dump: Episode 6
by Frank Conniff and Jerry Beck
2007 · USA · Running Time: 9:33
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Credits

Cast: Erica Doering (Compost Brite), Kathleen Roll (Buf Badger)
Produced by Jerry Beck and Frank Conniff
Directed by Scott Ingalls
Created by Frank Conniff
Developed by Jerry Beck
Written by Frank Conniff
Music by Brad Kay
Lyrics by Frank Conniff
Cartoon curator: Jerry Beck
Director of Photography: Tomas Arceo
Art Department and Wardrobe: Scott Ingalls, Lily Feliciano, Katie Lee
Editor: Adam Daroff
Make-up: Starlooks
Assistant Director: Jonathan Casson
Stage Manager: Steven Pope
Photography: Eric Meacham
Cartoon Dump logo by Leslie Cabarga
Production services provided by Fleaco Pix
Special Thanks to The Steve Allen Theater, Amit Itelman, Rorry Daniels

The Adventures of Sir Gee Whiz On The Other Side Of The Moon credits:
A Harman-Ising Production
Director: Hugh Harman
Producer: Sir Gee Whiz Enterprises, Inc.
Production Associate: Jeanne Harman
Animation Supervisor: F.P. Scheidenberger
Production Supervisor: Charles McGirl
Photography: Glenar Studios
Music: Gene Kauer
Sound: Ryder Sound Service
Editing: Harold V. McKenzie
Voices: Joe Yocum (Narrator), Rudy Ising (Sir Gee Whiz), Charisse Pyatt (Lindy), Mike Harman (Senor Ropo), Kim McDaniel (Nurse).
Based on characters created by Lucille Phllips and Hank Cutrona.

Film Notes

Do you love great animation? Are you a fan of quality cartoons? Well, if so, you will be appalled and horrified by Cartoon Dump, our weekly web series based on a live comedy show presented monthly at the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood, CA. Cartoon Dump is the unholy alliance of noted author, producer and cartoon scholar Jerry Beck and writer/producer/comedian Frank Conniff (”TV’s Frank” from Mystery Science Theater 300).

During his many years of cartoon research, Jerry Beck has collected and assembled some of the most disturbing and incompetently made “animated” TV shows from the Fifties and Sixties, considered by many pop culture pundits to be the golden age of Saturday Morning Cartoon Crap. Long forgotten titles like Mighty Mr. Titan, Big World of Little Adam, Bucky and Pepito, Spunky and Tadpole, and Sir Gee Whiz, which have never been seen since their original release, mainly because nobody in their right mind would ever want to see them again.

And speaking of people not in their right minds, Frank Conniff has created a deranged TV kids show where these animated atrocities are prominently featured, a show that is sure to make the FCC plead, more in sorrow than in anger, “At long last, sir, have you no sense of decency?”

Cartoon Dump takes place in a garbage dump, a filthy, disease-ridden stink hole where whimsy, imagination and a child-like sense of fun are as common as the used heroin needles and discarded crack pipes that litter the ground like magical four-leaf clovers. Cartoon Dump boasts a beguiling cast of characters who will bring laughter and joy into the hearts of borderline schizophrenics and catatonic acidheads the world over.

The host of the show, COMPOST BRITE, is a sweet and beautiful young lass. Through story and song, she teachers her young viewers important lessons about love, friendship, and self-mutilation. Compost Brite was born and raised in a dumpster, yet she has still somehow managed to maintain a perky, positive outlook on life, along with a severe eating disorder.

And she is joined by her frisky animal friends:

MOODSY, THE CLINICALLY DEPRESSED OWL, a delightfully despondent creature whose vast store of ancient wisdom is almost as huge as the hollow chasm of emptiness he feels deep within his soul.

HANGOVER HOUND, a cuddly canine. He may be man’s best friend, but his best friend goes by the name of Johnny Walker Red. His speech is slurred and his liver is failing, but Hangover Hound’s booze-fueled antics always result in a chronic case of Cirrhosis of the Funny Bone.

BUFF BADGER, THE RAGEAHOLIC ANIMATION HISTORIAN. As her scholarly expertise has grown, the psychological scars of an abusive childhood have abated not at all. The result is the most enchanting hair-trigger temper you’ll ever love.

About the Director: Scott Ingalls

Scott Ingalls received a Kodak Scholarship to attend the Rochester Institute of Technology to study photography. Upon attending, he became fascinated with film. After receiving an Associates degree from RIT, he left upstate New York to study experimental animation at CalArts. Prior to directing commercials, Scott worked as a Special Effects Engineer. From 1990 to 1992 he taught film techniques and film. He has recieved an Annie award, was supervising producer on The Green Screen Show and has directed over one hundred campaigns over the past twelve years.

7 viewer reviews

10/23/07  8:09pm
Chris G says:

Is it me, or does Compost Brite have two different colored eyes, like David Bowie?

10/22/07  7:35pm
Graham says:

This isn’t too bad compared to the other episodes. The animators actually put some effort into this one.

Sir Gee Whiz is creepy, though. He just kidnaps a random girl in the middle of the night and puts her mother to sleep, for good measure (insert “Neverland Ranch” joke here).

10/22/07  6:45am
Craig D. says:

Glad to see that “Buff Badger” is establishing an interent presence!

Her “take” on teamwork is right on the money, I’d say. At least for a “fictional” rageaholic animation historian!

I *heart* Buff!

A 1960 Harman-Ising production?

What’s next? “Bobby Bumps & His DiscoTennial Rocket Patrol?”

10/21/07  7:56pm
Doug Drown says:

Wow. I think Variety used to call films like this “stinkeroos.” The concept is mildly interesting, but the execution . . . oh, man . . .

Most of the old Warner Bros. and MGM Harman-Ising cartoons were too cutesy-pie for my taste even when I was a little kid (on top of being formulaic). But the drawings and the backgrounds were always nicely done, particularly in the MGM shorts of the late ’30s. Even here there’s evidence that some work went into those aspects of production. But Sir Gee Whiz looks like an elf transported by time machine from one of those ’30s cartoons — the distinctive appearance of Harman-Ising characters hadn’t changed a bit — and the plot development is just awful. Awful. To say they “didn’t get” the concept of limited animation cartoons is a huge understatement. I wonder if the succeeding segments (if there were any) were equally as abominable.

10/21/07  6:29pm
Thomas Maynard says:

Athough the camera work was a bit odd in the live action part, I was amazed by the voice of the cartoon narrator. I am sure it was the voice of many movie trailers in the 1950s. Now we have a name to go with the voice.

10/21/07  1:47pm
Downer says:

I agree, great cartoons, great idea, but perhaps make the human element pertain to the cartoon a little more.

10/21/07  1:03am
Andy says:

Wow! If there ever was a “lost” cartoon that deserved to stay that way, this is it! Atrocious - I loved it!

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